Suspender-end



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

JULIUS HOTCHKISS, OF` WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPENDERf-END.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,160, dated J' une 27, 1854.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JULIUs HoTcHKrss, of Waterbury, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Suspender- Ends; and I do hereby declare that the fol* tlowing is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings' and to the letters of reference markedthereon.

j The nature of my invention consists in attaching the straps to eachend of the buckle by a `double connection, whereby a self-adjustingaction is obtained that adapt-s itself to the position of the body.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

`.In constructing' the suspender strap, I take two pieces of narrow web,half inch wide (but may be of diii'erent width), and of the lengthnecessary for the strap required; these two pieces of web I place sideby side, and with needle and thread neatly and firmly sew the selvageedges together from one of the ends, a suiiicient distance to make theunio-n firm and strong; then I leave a space or opening of sufficientlength for the button hole or loop required, and then sew the selvageedges of the two pieces of web together again for half an inch or more,thus forming the button hole or loop inone end of the strap, as shown inthe accompanying drawing at A, and the buttonhole or loop in the otherend of the strap after being attached to the buckle as hereinafterdescribed is formed in the same manner by sewing the other ends of thetwo pieces of web together as shown in the drawing at B.

In constructing the buckle to which my invention is to be applied, Iformthe bar of the buckle with a flat lip behind theV tongues,

ineach end of which I cut out a stri or opening in length equal to thewidth of the web of the straps, and of suflicient width to receive theweb of the straps, and allow it to play easily therein as shown in thedrawing at C, C. Y If preferred, instead of the lip on the bar of thebuckle with the openings to receive the straps as above described, thebar of the buckle may be formed in the usual manner with wire loops ofthe required form attached to the bar of the buckle behind the tonguesto receive the straps instead of the lip with the openings as abovedescribed.

`After the buttonhole or loop is formed in one end of the two pieces ofweb as shown in the drawing at A, to attach the strap to the buckle Itake the left hand strip of web and pass it through the front side ofthe left hand opening in the bar of the buckle as shown in the drawingat D, andthe right hand strip of web through the back side of the righthand opening in the bar of the buckle as shown in the drawing at E, andthen bring the ends of the strips of web together and form thebuttonhole or loop, in that end of the strap, by sewing together as indrawing at Bs which completes and forms the suspender end according tomy invention, the whole when complete being as JULIUS HOTCHKISS.

Witnesses:

THEoDonE S. BUEL, NORTON J. BUEL.

